Here, an examination of so-called uneducated and otherwise non-standard usage in the Sri Lankan context, including popular cultural and protest writing and spee

This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of

Taking a sociocultural and educational approach, Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers: *introduces basic linguistic conce

If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic rea

This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.